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Orazova, Gulshirin; Cohen, James – TESOL Journal, 2021
English has gained in popularity as the world's lingua franca, inviting individuals and countries to join the international community. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the use of English has dramatically increased in Turkmenistan, in Central Asia (CA). Russian was required for securing jobs, professional development, and economic well-being…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Rural Areas, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Smith, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative multicase study was to explore the leadership journey of female secondary principals. Methods: A multicase study design and semistructured interviews were used to explore the overarching research question: How do female secondary principals describe their leadership journey? By interviewing participants,…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Principals, Secondary Schools
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Abrahamson, Heather P. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper critically analyzes the ways that colonization and European patriarchal discourse led to, and often supports, a type of historical instruction wherein educators rely on the use "[of a] narrative [that] is presented as though there are no alternatives or counternarratives possible" (VanSledright, 2008, p. 115). I provide an…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, American Indians, Females, History Instruction
Sahni, Urvashi – Brookings Institution Press, 2017
Since 2003 a privately funded high school has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh, in northeast India. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, tells the stories of how the school has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Equal Education, Poverty
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Voelker, Dana K. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2016
Leadership is a powerful life skill that influences the future of our local, national and global communities. Despite the many positive and productive changes observed in the leadership opportunities for women and girls, they remain highly under-represented in positional leadership roles. The leadership development and empowerment of women and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Females, Student Empowerment, Physical Education
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Kirk, D.; Lamb, C. A.; Oliver, K. L.; Ewing-Day, R.; Fleming, C.; Loch, A.; Smedley, V. – Curriculum Journal, 2018
This paper explores the possibilities of using a pedagogical model for working with adolescent girls in physical education as a means of balancing the challenge of external prescription from outside the school with teacher and pupil agency. We report data from a study involving four schools in Glasgow. We note that the national curriculum for…
Descriptors: Models, Adolescents, Females, Faculty Development
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Degener, Rebekah May – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
The author draws on the ideas of counter-storytelling and critical race methodology to examine the ways that urban, racially minoritized middle school girls create hope in sports and physical activity contexts. Although the passage of Title IX has brought more equal opportunities for many women and girls in sports, racially minoritized female…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Females, Story Telling, Critical Theory
Krause, Kristie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed methods study used self-administered questionnaires ( N=132) and in-depth interviews (n=10) with Pakistani women ages (18-25 years) in Punjab, Pakistan, to determine how the role of schools of thought, reform of educational opportunities, and higher education in particularly affected women's empowerment. Community collaboration and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Travel, Foreign Countries, Females
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Kuppuswami, Damodaram; Ferreira, Frances – Journal of Learning for Development, 2022
To ensure its partners have the capacity to implement gender responsive projects, COL introduced an online training programme on gender equality and women's empowerment. This paper reports the methodology and results in measuring the efficacy of this online training at individual and organisational levels. The ability of individuals and…
Descriptors: Females, Capacity Building, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
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Elyas, Tariq; Al-Zahrani, Budor S. – Higher Education Studies, 2019
This research aimed to explore students' views towards the use of a critical thinking pedagogical model for vocabulary instruction. From this end, a questionnaire was utilized to collect both quantitative and qualitative data to investigate the students' opinions about such an educational experience. Data analysis revealed that the meaningful and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Student Motivation, Vocabulary Development
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Howard, Antoinette; Gray, Pamela; Kew, Kristin – School Leadership Review, 2020
This case study research identified culturally relevant leadership practices that influence the outreach, recruitment, and retention of Hispanic girls in Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (T-STEM) programs in a School District in the Southwest Border region. Educators have a social justice responsibility to challenge the inequitable…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Leadership Styles, Principals
UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are considered catalysts for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Yet, particularly for STEM fields, girls and women, for a multitude of social, cultural and psychological reasons, engage and participate at a lower rate than boys and men. This research…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Womens Education, Females, Barriers
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Arar, Khalid Husny – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
This paper traces challenges faced by six Arab women from three different Arab localities -- Palestinian Arab society in Israel, Palestinian Authority territories, and Jordan -- on their path to appointment as school principals, investigating how they cope with the challenges involved in women's leadership in a patriarchal society. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Arabs, Females, Barriers, Coping
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Chae, Sophia; Ngo, Thoai D. – Population Council, 2017
Growing recognition of the harmful effects of child marriage has placed its elimination on the global and national agenda. To address this problem, the authors reviewed the global state of evidence on what works to prevent child marriage. Their research focuses exclusively on rigorously evaluated interventions, defined as interventions evaluated…
Descriptors: Marriage, Children, World Problems, Prevention
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Idawati; Mahmud, Alimuddin; Dirawan, Gufran Darma – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of a training model for capacity building of women entrepreneurship community-based. Research type approach Research and Development Model, which refers to the model of development research that developed by Romiszowki (1996) combined with a model of development Sugiono (2011) it was…
Descriptors: Females, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, Training
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